Comics I'm thinking of dropping altogether

Just FYI, "dropping altogether" means not getting it at all, even as an eventual trade.

Iron Man. This one is surprising, because I've always liked the title. I started reading IM back in the mid-to-late 70s, back when I was a teenager. As a kid I hadn't cared for him at all, but as a teen I developed an appreciation for Tony's massively flawed character.

I don't think it was the Civil War changes that turned me away from him, because I still enjoy him as shown in Captain America. And besides, it takes more than a hero being a jerk to make me want to avoid a book. What it takes is for me not to be interested in the stories anymore, and I'm not. I can't really point to a reason why, but lately I find myself skimming the title and not really caring what happens next. Good enough reason to drop it, I think.


Fantastic Four. This one is really surprising, because the FF was my favorite book when I started buying my own comics as a kid. And I stuck with it--if I was buying comics at all, I was buying the FF.

Again, the reason for dropping it is that I'm just not enjoying it like I ought to be. It's not the addition of Panther and Storm that did it--I like them about as well as I like Reed and Sue (it was always Ben and Johnny who carried the book for me), and really I had lost interest before their addition.


Green Lantern. After Sinestro Corps, this is probably going away. I just can't get into Hal on his own. If anyone else was featured, we'd keep it--I like Kyle, I like Guy, and I'd be in big trouble with the thirteen-year-old if I skipped a John GL book--but somehow I just can't get into Hal to the point of keeping the book. I think I gave it a fair chance.


Please note that I'm not necessarily dropping these books forever and ever. I'm more than open to picking them up again at some point if I think I'll like them again. I'll continue to read the internet, read reviews and discussion of these titles, so that I'll know when I might want to do so.

I'm not a completist, and I don't really care if I have a full run of most books, but I do have a history of being willing to wait it out if there's a dull storyline because I know it won't be too long until things improve. But for all of these books, I have waited, and I haven't started to enjoy them again.

I'll wait, but I won't wait forever.